fta "He's looking directly at me every time he pulls that trigger, and at one point my son says, 'Mom, I'm OK," Johnson's mother, Rose Gonzales, told NBC4. "So at that point, I realize this guy is doing this because I am reacting."

ElPresidente:Don't object to people smoking, but those cigarette filters that people drop on the street? Yeah, those take up to 12 years to bio-degrade, so put your cigarette butts in the trash can, lazy butthead.

/not worth a tasering, however//just a swift kick in the butt

How long until those filters have a little bar code on them, enabling them to be "recycled" for 5 cents a piece (like soda/beer cans in some of our better states)?

If cops are going to argue that they have an expectation of privacy in a clearly public place, then I'm going to counter that all dashcam and other surveillance footage recorded by cops be thrown out for exactly the same reason.

gweilo8888:Queensowntalia: That doesn't always work out so well for the officer.

Even if it doesn't work out for the officer, you've probably already had your phone confiscated or destroyed, and spent god only knows how much in court.

And it's not even just video that's the problem. There have been plenty of reports of people getting in trouble for merely taking stills of the cops -- even accredited photojournalists.

In Seattle a cop with a history of being a reactionary dickhead did mess with a journalist and did get fired over it. Sort of a perfect storm of sh*t for Officer Saudet. Someone linked it up see The Stranger if you're curious, they will be promoting it for years since the journalist is their politics editor.